May noted that 13,000 of the 21,000 people in the St. Louis suburb are black, yet only one city councilman, of five, is black. And the mayor and police chief are white.

The possible reason? Black voters don't vote in high numbers in the midterm elections, May posited.

"Now if we can't take that scenario and roll it into a message for our party, we just need to pack it up and go home," May told the Democrats, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "Because we have been grasping for a message."